Some universities I think run clusters for teaching purposes so you might consider investigating them.
I'm afraid though, that you might need to start work on your own system again. Ask questions to the list - be as specific and give as much info as you can (post stack traces, and describe the hardware) - and we will try and help as much as we can. It should not be too hard to get you running in a day or so. Start by getting it running on a single machine, then a pseudo distribution and then if you have more machines, set up a cluster. Don't think you need a big cluster to 'practice on'. I expect we all run on our laptops and small data before running on a cluster. Cheers, Tim On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Prabhu Hari Dhanapal <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Tim !! I m still a student ! > > so .. i was wondering is there a cost - effective option :) > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Tim Robertson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You could try the Amazon Elastic MapReduce >> (http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/) >> This is Hadoop, and costs less than US$1 per hour for a small cluster >> - you only pay for what you use. >> >> Alternatively you could use the Amazon EC2 instances and run your own >> cluster on their hardware also for similar $. Cloudera provide good >> Amazon images to do this. >> >> Cheers >> Tim >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Prabhu Hari Dhanapal >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have been having lot of problems installing hadoop on my system and I >> > finally gave up.I was just wondering if I could SSH to a remote hadoop >> > cluster that is open for developers to practice on ? Is there anything >> > provided by cloudera ? Please let me know. >> > >> > Thanks in Advance. >> > -- >> > Hari >> > >> > > > > -- > Hari >
